Alternative application of solar sail technology

  • The development of Gossamer sail structures for solar sails contributes to a large field of future space applications like thin film solar generators, membrane antennas and drag sails. The focus of this paper is the development of a drag sail based on solar sail technology that could contribute to a reduction of space debris in low Earth orbits. The drag sail design and its connections to solar sail development, a first test on a sounding rocket, as well as the ongoing integration of the drag sail into a triple CubeSat is presented.

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Author:Nino Wolff, Patric Seefeldt, Wolfgang Bauer, Christopher Fiebig, Patrick Gerding, Kai Parow-Souchon, Anna Pongs, Matti Reiffenrath, Thomas Ziemann
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_23
ISBN:978-3-642-34906-5 (Print) ; 978-3-642-34907-2 (E-Book)
Parent Title (English):Advances in solar sailing
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2014
Date of the Publication (Server):2014/02/17
First Page:351
Last Page:365
Link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34907-2_23
Zugriffsart:bezahl
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik
collections:Verlag / Springer